The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today convened a special discussion on the important role of faith in providing international protection for refugees at a time of record-high levels of forced displacement.
The UN Refugee Agency is readying preparations for a major aid airlift, expected in the next 48 hours, to help people displaced by the worst earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades. This follows a request for UN help received from the Ecuador Government.
BARAMCHI VILLAGE, Nepal, April 25 (UNHCR) – In this rubble-strewn hamlet perched on the edge of a hill in northeast Nepal, a constant hammering on corrugated iron sheets breaks the calm as 40-year-old Jagat Lama fixes a roof over his newly built home
to rebuild the lives of refugee children without parents in Thailand
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Last updated 29 February 2016
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